by BlogEditor | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room, Uncategorized
I. Beautiful day for war, fields of yellowing leaves speckled with black spots buffering centuries of secrets stuck in the soil whispering to any root that’ll listen to its’ stories. Put down your weapons, pick up your ploughs. II. The earth has never faltered under...
by BlogEditor | Aug 2, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post, The Keeping Room
My birthday twin died today. I knew almost nothing about him, except that he and I were born on the exact same date. We were the same age until around 11am this morning when I began to grow steadily older than him. Every morning at the hospital where I work as a...
by BlogEditor | Jul 6, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room
Hymn Thirsty for aPleistoncene morning, I’m a graying creaturetrotting in & out of shadows. I rest deep in the dark belly of my backyard ravine. ...
by BlogEditor | Jul 1, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room
Ways to Die While Breathing I’ve heard this more than once: Death slides the mind to turbulence and dust, Anytimebullets may break my spine break my spine I can’t decide if this scares me or not Besides, there aremany ways to die ...
by BlogEditor | Jun 29, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Her unrelenting certitude is as irritating as her criticisms of other peoples’ food and her refusal to let anyone cook in her kitchen. She tells me God doesn’t lie– to have faith. A leap is a star many say can be reached, but I’ve seen a small frog in the middle...